VIDS has an active research program, with strong links to public health.
About our research
VIDS has close links to various infectious disease reference laboratories, state-of-the-art laboratory capacity including microbial genomics and relevant basic science research.
Our research studies
We conduct research studies in the following areas:
- Antibiotic stewardship
- Clinical trials
- Epidemiology
- Immigrant and refugee health
- Infections in immunocompromised patients
- Health care associated infections
- HIV
- Infection control
- Malaria
- Mathematical modelling
- Respiratory viruses including SARS CoV2 and influenza
- Sepsis
- Travel medicine
- Tuberculosis
- Viral hepatitis
View our current clinical trials.
Publications
A hospital-wide response to multiple outbreaks of COVID-19 in health care workers: lessons learned from the field
Buising, KL; Williamson, D; Cowie, BC; MacLachlan, J; Orr, E; MacIsaac, C; Williams, E; Bond, K; Muhi, S; McCarthy, J; Maier, AB; Irving, L; Heinjus, D; Kelly, C; Marshall, C
(2021), Med. J. Aust., 101
DOI: 10.5694/mja2.50850
A randomised controlled trial testing the efficacy of Fit after COVID, a cognitive behavioural therapy targeting severe post-infectious fatigue following COVID-19 (ReCOVer): study protocol
Kuut, TA; Muller, F; Aldenkamp, A; Assmann-Schuilwerve, E; Braamse, A; Geerlings, SE; Gibney, KB; Kanaan, RAA; Nieuwkerk, P; Hartman, TCO; Pauelsen, D; Prins, M; Slieker, K; Van Vugt, M; Bleeker-Rovers, CP; Keijmel, SP; Knoop, H
(2021), Trials
A Randomized Trial of Two 2-Dose Influenza Vaccination Strategies for Patients Following Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Teh, BW; Leung, VKY; Mordant, FL; Sullivan, SG; Joyce, T; Harrison, SJ; Khvorov, A; Barr, IG; Subbarao, K; Slavin, MA; Worth, LJ
(2021), Clin. Infect. Dis., E4269-E4277
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1711
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